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Exoplanet LHS 475 b and Its Star This illustration reflects that exoplanet LHS 475 b is rocky and almost precisely the same size as Earth based on new evidence from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The planet is only a few hundred degrees warmer than our home planet. The planet whips around its star in just two days, far faster than any planet in the solar system, but its red dwarf star is less than half the temperature of the Sun. Researchers will follow up this summer with another observation with Webb, which they hope will allow them to definitively...

As President Trump prepares to re-enter a political cage match against the lying, dishonest, mainstream media and dirty Democrat machine, in his bid for President in 2024, the popular conservative, who has promised to pull the plug on the crooked leadership in the DOJ and FBI, is going to need every tool at his disposal to defeat the army of evil who will be fighting him every step of the way. Reaching the American public with his unfiltered message will be critical for the outspoken and unafraid truth-teller. According to NBC News, who is a big player in the cabal...

The Biden Administration’s Department of Education (ED) has launched an investigation into a school district in Texas after the school banned several sexually explicit books. As reported by Breitbart, the investigation is being led by the ED’s Office for Civil Rights, which claims that such a ban amounts to a failure to provide representation for “LGBTQ” characters, which the ED says can be considered discrimination. The investigation into Granbury Independent School District comes after the far-left American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) complained about the district’s book bans over the summer. The district banned at least 130 books from its school...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed on Wednesday morning that the company would dismiss some 10,000 employees over the next several months to reduce costs amid a challenging economic climate. The layoffs will impact approximately 5% of the software company’s overall workforce, which currently includes 122,000 domestic employees and 99,000 international employees. Microsoft confirmed the layoffs in a regulatory filing and a memo to staff members in which Nadella said the company would battle economic headwinds while investing in new technology. “This is the context in which we as a company must strive to deliver results on an ongoing basis, while...

Popular contemporary Christian singer Amy Grant has defended her decision to host a same-sex wedding at her farm after some Christian leaders criticized the move as an endorsement of sin.Grant, well-known for singing contemporary Christian hits such as “Mary Did You Know” and “Breath of Heaven” in addition to mainstream pop music, reacted to the backlash she has received for her decision to host her niece’s same-sex wedding in a statement to People Magazine published Monday.“I never chase any of those rabbits down the rabbit hole,” she said.“I love my family, I love those brides. They’re wonderful, our family is...

The Biden Justice Department is fighting to reverse the decision which deemed the nationwide mask mandate unlawful, hoping to gain back the power to force individuals wear masks on public transportation, including planes, once again. In April 2022, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle of the Middle District of Florida ruled that the mask mandate — forcing individuals to wear masks on public transportation — was unlawful in nature and concluded that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which issued the original directive January 29, 2021, was overstepping its authority. The rule required all of those two...

Geraldo Rivera tweeted video of a truck-mounted machine gun in Mogadishu Wednesday as part of his continuing effort to prove AR-15s are machine guns and should be banned. Rivera’s video also shows a machine gun that is being carried by soldier. Neither of the guns are AR-15s, but he tweeted about them to show his support for an “assault weapons” ban. Breitbart News noted that Geraldo told hosts on FOX News’ The Five that “AR” stands for “automatic rifle.”

Two different mass murders of college students happened on November 13, 2022.This one is still in the national news every day:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_University_of_Idaho_killings(Image taken from here. Used here under fair use.)This one is not:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_University_of_Virginia_shooting(Image taken from here. Used here under fair use.)Why is that?

Old Joe Biden just boasted again about how powerless patriots are against his all-powerful and increasingly authoritarian federal behemoth. Biden practically thumped his chest as he declared: “I love my right-wing friends who talk about” – and here he mockingly imitated their dramatic tones – “‘the tree of liberty is water of the blood of patriots.’ If you need to work about taking on the federal government, you need some F-15s. You don’t need an R– AR-15.” Has any president in American history so delighted in taunting his citizens? And has anyone noticed how Biden, in a single mangled quip,...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore was sworn in as the state’s first (b)lack governor on Wednesday, punctuating his inauguration with references to (b)lack history that included an acknowledgement of the enslaved people who once arrived by ship near the state Capitol. Before his inaugural speech, Moore attended a wreath-laying ceremony at the Annapolis City Dock, which was once a regional slave port and the site of a memorial to enslaved African Kunta Kinte, who arrived there in 1767 and was written about in Alex Haley’s book “Roots.” Moore was joined by other (b)lack leaders at the ceremony on a bright sunny...

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake shook eastern Indonesia and southern Philippines on Wednesday, with no damage immediately reported and no tsunami warning issued. Some residents tried to escape from houses in the Indonesian town of Tobelo in North Maluku province. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake occurred 48 kilometres deep under the sea, centred 154 km northwest of Tobelo. Resident Pius Ohoiwutun said some people ran from houses when the quake shook. “I felt a little swaying as the lamps also swayed,” Ohoiwutun said. The undersea quake was also felt in several provinces and cities across the southern Philippines, but...

Greenie leftists for years have been saying the Antarctic is melting. Well, based on this latest news from AFP, the Antarctic ice is not melting as fast as predicted. Runaway W. Antarctic ice sheet collapse not 'inevitable': studyBoth the North and South pole regions have warmed by roughly three degrees Celsius compared to late 19th-century levels, nearly three times the global average.The global temperature has risen less than two degrees Fahrenheit in the last 150 years. There is no scientific data that show that this small rise is caused by:An exponential rise in coal and oil use. An exponential rise...

The green light has been given to go after Joe Biden. CNN has turned on Joe Biden. CNN reported on the House GOP investigation into the Biden Crime family and actually admitted Joe Biden’s family was profiting off of the ‘Biden’ name. “While Joe Biden swears by his name in politics, his son and two brothers spent years trying to benefit from the Biden name.” CNN reported. “CNN’s review of [Hunter’s] laptop data as other public material shows that Joe Biden did interact with some of his son’s associates while serving as Vice President” – CNN reported Tuesday night. WATCH:

A French nun who was believed to be the world’s oldest person but had been reportedly growing weary of the burdens of age has died a few weeks before her 119th birthday, her nursing home in southern France said Wednesday. Lucile Randon, known as Sister André, was born in the town of Ales, southern France, on Feb. 11, 1904, and lived through the two world wars. As a little girl she was astonished by her first contact with electric lighting at school and, more recently, survived COVID-19 without even realizing she’d been infected.Spokesman David Tavella said she died at 2...

The news is full of tut-tutting about the terribleness of President Trump, and now Joe Biden, supposedly mishandling a few classified documents by having them in their possession, which is usually a matter of them wanting to write their memoirs, so far as we know. Now a new book came out yesterday by James Bamford, called SpyFail, telling us how little care the FBI has taken with its own classified documents. Its clumsy maneuvers, bad personnel hiring practices, and misplaced priorities pretty well gave away the store of U.S. secrets targeting China.According to BusinessInsider, which ran a long and interesting...

by Becca LondonAll three contestants on "Celebrity Jeopardy!" failed to solve a very simple clue about a midwestern state referenced in a popular movie classic, and the interaction went viral on social media.The video showed contestant Torrey DeVitto, a TV actress and model, pick the category "The Fifty States" for $300. "In 'Field of Dreams' a question is asked, 'Is this heaven?' - No, it's this midwestern state also known as 'the corn state,'" read host Mayim Bialik. DeVitto guessed Wisconsin and was shot down. Candace Parker, a WNBA player, offered Nebraska, which was also wrong. Comedian Patton Oswalt, a...

Second Week in Ordinary Time Mark 3:1–6 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus withstands the opposition of the Pharisees to heal a man with a withered hand. His healings like this one signified the arrival of the kingdom of God.When Jesus began to preach, his theme was that the kingdom of God is at hand. In his own person an entirely new way of ordering things was on offer. Then—in his love and nonviolence, in his mocking of the Pharisees and religious establishment, in his healing and teaching—Jesus was demonstrating precisely what the reign of the God of Israel looks like.This...

Yuval Noah Harari, Klaus Schwab's lead advisor at the Word Economic Forum, has announced that human beings are no better than "viruses or bananas" and the WEF has now reached the point where they can "hack humanity."According to Harari, the idea that humans have free will is over, and for those who oppose, there will be no escaping what Harari refers to as the "Secret Police."The messaging coming out of the WEF is becoming increasingly sinister, with Klaus Schwab taking on the role of terrorist group leader, using communications channels to issue ultimatums to humanity. Do what I say, or...

Joe Biden’s mishandling of top-secret documents is not the only way he has jeopardized America’s national security. He did something arguably even worse as vice-president. Biden was so obsessed with his so-called “regular Joe” image that he wanted the nuclear football traveling at least one mile behind his motorcade on trips to his Delaware home. Had a foreign adversary launched a nuclear strike during those trips, America would have no way of responding in kind. This means America could have been wiped out thanks to Biden’s narcissism. From Kessler: While Biden was vice president, he engaged in reckless and dangerous...

Grinning Biden refused to answer questions from reporters in the Oval Office Reporters shouted questions on the documents - but he just sat and smiled And new report found DoJ cut a deal with Biden team to keep FBI out Justice agreed to let Biden's team search solo White House is under intense scrutiny for their response to the files scandal It took them two months from the first discovery to acknowledge them ******************************************************************************** President Joe Biden smiled and laughed Tuesday as he ignored a barrage of questions about the classified documents scandal that has engulfed his administration while a...